Wealth you get by dishonesty will do you no good, but honesty can save your life.

The more easily you get your wealth, the sooner you will lose it. The harder it is to earn, the more you will have.

The customer always complains that the price is too high, but then he goes off and brags about the bargain he got.

The more easily you get your wealth, the less good it will do you.

If you plant the seeds of injustice, disaster will spring up, and your oppression of others will end.

keep me from lying, and let me be neither rich nor poor. So give me only as much food as I need.

The person who gets money dishonestly is like a bird that hatches eggs it didn't lay. In the prime of life he will lose his riches, and in the end he is nothing but a fool.

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and are caught in the trap of many foolish and harmful desires, which pull them down to ruin and destruction.

For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil. Some have been so eager to have it that they have wandered away from the faith and have broken their hearts with many sorrows.

It is necessary to stop their talk, because they are upsetting whole families by teaching what they should not, and all for the shameful purpose of making money.

In their greed these false teachers will make a profit out of telling you made-up stories. For a long time now their Judge has been ready, and their Destroyer has been wide awake!

Those who do not find me hurt themselves; anyone who hates me loves death."

Give up all the evil you have been doing, and get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?